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ABOUT GOTHAMED
About GothamEd. GothamEd presents online courses in New York City history, designed to serve a range of backgrounds and purposes — from the generally interested looking for a compact introduction to avid buffs in search of a much deeper dive. The program offers a mixture of private lectures with discussion and more traditionalclasses
CONTIGUOUS CLOTH: TEXTILES AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN NEW Sometime in the fall of 1661 the Nieuw Nederlantse Indiaen docked in the harbor of New Amsterdam carrying documents and cargo from Curaçao, the Dutch colony that served as a central hub of the slave trade for both Dutch and Spanish colonies in the Americas. The skipper of the ship, Dirck Jansz van Oldenburg, carried with him a list of documents that were to be delivered to Pieter REVIEW: DAVID PAUL KUHN'S THE HARDHAT RIOT: NIXON, NEW Friday, Bloody Friday: David Paul Kuhn's The Hardhat Riot Reviewed by Steven H. Jaffe David Paul Kuhn’s The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution focuses on May 8, 1970, a symbolic date in the exodus ofEDITORIAL TEAM
Marlene Gaynair is a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, specializing in social, cultural, and digital histories of the modern Black Atlantic, particularly North America and the Caribbean.Her dissertation, “Islands in the North,” is a comparative social history of Jamaican migrants and their descendants in Toronto and New York City, taking a GOTHAMED — THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History NEW YORK CITY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR Thousands of veterans ambled in the city in search of work. When that failed, they organized marches in protest. Whole industries of conmen and scammers rose to pickpocket and shanghai them. Physically and mentally disabled veterans faced an even steeper uphill battle to find work and settle into postwar civilian life. “THE LUNGS OF THE CITY”: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, PUBLIC In the 19th century, parkland and public health were so intimately intertwined that Frederick Law Olmsted left his post as Superintendent of Central Park to become General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, a national medical relief effort organized during the Civil War for securing aid and supplies for wounded soldiers. The organization was the precursor to the American Red PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
THE END OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN WELCOME IN HARLEM, 1904 The following is an excerpt from the author's new book. The spring of 1904 was pivotal for African Americans then living in Harlem. Their unremarkable co-existence with white residents of Harlem was about tocome to an end.
THE RISE AND DECLINE OF NEW YORK CITY'S THIRD AVENUE Since the beginning of European colonization, the trade of goods and ideas created prosperity throughout the area around New York Bay. Industrialization further fueled growth and expansion, sometimes atexponential levels.
THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham. MUSEUMS, SITES, AND TOURS One of the largest, oldest museums in America, BMA traces its roots to 1823 as a school for young tradesmen (like Walt Whitman). Formally established in 1895, the Beaux-Arts building (designed by McKim, Mead and White) was meant to be four times as large. Even still, it houses a formidable collection of not just Egyptian and African art, but THE GREAT EPIZOOTIC OF 1872: PANDEMICS, ANIMALS, AND The Great Epizootic of 1872: Pandemics, Animals, and Modernity in 19th-Century New York City By Oliver Lazarus Monday, October 21st, 1872, began like many mid-fall days in New York — overcast and muggy with spitting rain, and a high of sixty-six degrees. Fall was supposed to mark the height of bu GARMENT INDUSTRY HISTORY PROJECT Garments were carted through traffic by “push boys,” making life difficult for pedestrians. At the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m., workers and bosses flooded local cafeterias and private clubs. After 1925, the Garment District pushed west of Eighth Avenue. By the late 1920s, the Garment District was home to half of the city’s garmentplants.
THE STRUGGLE FOR TEACHER EDUCATION IN 19TH CENTURY NEW The Struggle for Teacher Education in 19th Century New York By Sandra Roff Teaching as a profession aims to achieve the most noble of principles — educating children to be responsible, productive citizens. Unfortunately, the teachers hired in the early years of 9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New NEW YORK CITY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR Thousands of veterans ambled in the city in search of work. When that failed, they organized marches in protest. Whole industries of conmen and scammers rose to pickpocket and shanghai them. Physically and mentally disabled veterans faced an even steeper uphill battle to find work and settle into postwar civilian life. JOSEPH KENNEDY AND THE NEW YORK UNDERWORLD DURING Joseph Kennedy and the New York Underworld during Prohibition By Ellen NicKenzie Lawson Owney Madden, Joseph Bonanno, Frank Costello, and the Lower East Side’s Lansky-Siegel gang all claimed to have ties with Joseph Kennedy, father of BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR AND Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already a THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham. MUSEUMS, SITES, AND TOURS One of the largest, oldest museums in America, BMA traces its roots to 1823 as a school for young tradesmen (like Walt Whitman). Formally established in 1895, the Beaux-Arts building (designed by McKim, Mead and White) was meant to be four times as large. Even still, it houses a formidable collection of not just Egyptian and African art, but THE GREAT EPIZOOTIC OF 1872: PANDEMICS, ANIMALS, AND The Great Epizootic of 1872: Pandemics, Animals, and Modernity in 19th-Century New York City By Oliver Lazarus Monday, October 21st, 1872, began like many mid-fall days in New York — overcast and muggy with spitting rain, and a high of sixty-six degrees. Fall was supposed to mark the height of bu GARMENT INDUSTRY HISTORY PROJECT Garments were carted through traffic by “push boys,” making life difficult for pedestrians. At the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m., workers and bosses flooded local cafeterias and private clubs. After 1925, the Garment District pushed west of Eighth Avenue. By the late 1920s, the Garment District was home to half of the city’s garmentplants.
THE STRUGGLE FOR TEACHER EDUCATION IN 19TH CENTURY NEW The Struggle for Teacher Education in 19th Century New York By Sandra Roff Teaching as a profession aims to achieve the most noble of principles — educating children to be responsible, productive citizens. Unfortunately, the teachers hired in the early years of 9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New NEW YORK CITY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR Thousands of veterans ambled in the city in search of work. When that failed, they organized marches in protest. Whole industries of conmen and scammers rose to pickpocket and shanghai them. Physically and mentally disabled veterans faced an even steeper uphill battle to find work and settle into postwar civilian life. JOSEPH KENNEDY AND THE NEW YORK UNDERWORLD DURING Joseph Kennedy and the New York Underworld during Prohibition By Ellen NicKenzie Lawson Owney Madden, Joseph Bonanno, Frank Costello, and the Lower East Side’s Lansky-Siegel gang all claimed to have ties with Joseph Kennedy, father of BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR AND Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already a THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. MUSEUMS, SITES, AND TOURS One of the largest, oldest museums in America, BMA traces its roots to 1823 as a school for young tradesmen (like Walt Whitman). Formally established in 1895, the Beaux-Arts building (designed by McKim, Mead and White) was meant to be four times as large. Even still, it houses a formidable collection of not just Egyptian and African art, butOUR MISSION
The Gotham Center is a research and public education institution, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City’s rich and living past. The organization was founded in 2000 by Mike Wallace, after his landmark work Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,co-authored with
ABOUT GOTHAMED
About GothamEd. GothamEd presents online courses in New York City history, designed to serve a range of backgrounds and purposes — from the generally interested looking for a compact introduction to avid buffs in search of a much deeper dive. The program offers a mixture of private lectures with discussion and more traditionalclasses
CONTIGUOUS CLOTH: TEXTILES AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN NEW Sometime in the fall of 1661 the Nieuw Nederlantse Indiaen docked in the harbor of New Amsterdam carrying documents and cargo from Curaçao, the Dutch colony that served as a central hub of the slave trade for both Dutch and Spanish colonies in the Americas. The skipper of the ship, Dirck Jansz van Oldenburg, carried with him a list of documents that were to be delivered to Pieter REVIEW: DAVID PAUL KUHN'S THE HARDHAT RIOT: NIXON, NEW Friday, Bloody Friday: David Paul Kuhn's The Hardhat Riot Reviewed by Steven H. Jaffe David Paul Kuhn’s The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution focuses on May 8, 1970, a symbolic date in the exodus of GOTHAMED — THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History NEW YORK CITY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR Thousands of veterans ambled in the city in search of work. When that failed, they organized marches in protest. Whole industries of conmen and scammers rose to pickpocket and shanghai them. Physically and mentally disabled veterans faced an even steeper uphill battle to find work and settle into postwar civilian life. HOW THE SLAVE TRADE DIED ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK Shortly before noon on Friday, February 21, 1862, a detachment of Marines with bayonets fixed for battle marched passed the wooden gallows and took up their positions. In the streets, an angry mob milled about purchasing liquor and trinkets as if a sporting event was about to begin. Drum rolls echoed off the courtyard walls as the blackshroud
THE ORIGINS OF “ANTIBUSING” POLITICS: NEW YORK CITY The white protestors were borrowing tactics from the African-American and Puerto Rican protestors in New York who organized a school boycott a month earlier, which kept over four hundred and sixty thousand students out of school to demand that the school board create a planfor desegregation.
THE END OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN WELCOME IN HARLEM, 1904 The following is an excerpt from the author's new book. The spring of 1904 was pivotal for African Americans then living in Harlem. Their unremarkable co-existence with white residents of Harlem was about tocome to an end.
THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham. THE GREAT EPIZOOTIC OF 1872: PANDEMICS, ANIMALS, AND The Great Epizootic of 1872: Pandemics, Animals, and Modernity in 19th-Century New York City By Oliver Lazarus Monday, October 21st, 1872, began like many mid-fall days in New York — overcast and muggy with spitting rain, and a high of sixty-six degrees. Fall was supposed to mark the height of bu 9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. THE STRUGGLE FOR TEACHER EDUCATION IN 19TH CENTURY NEW The Struggle for Teacher Education in 19th Century New York By Sandra Roff Teaching as a profession aims to achieve the most noble of principles — educating children to be responsible, productive citizens. Unfortunately, the teachers hired in the early years of “DOWN HERE NEAR THE END OF STATEN ISLAND”: DOROTHY DAY ON “Down Here Near the End of Staten Island”: Dorothy Day on the Beach and on the Page By David Allen In the Map Division of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue is a 1924 survey of New York conducted by the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation for the City’s Office of the Chief Engineer. If NEW YORK'S VANISHING VISIONARY: THE QUIET MYSTERIES OF The 1920’s were also the dotage of New York’s pioneer generation of reformers – Stover, Low, Wald, Paulding, and others – who had built institutions, lobbied for legislation, and created or protected community organizations and public spaces, filling the gaps left by government and private charity in responding to the urban squalor associated with industrialization and mass immigration. HORACE GREELEY: PRINT, POLITICS, AND THE FAILURE OF Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Reviewed by John Bugg How many New Yorkers could identify the large, weathered bronze statue of a journalist with a newspaper open across his lap that sits in City Hall Park, just off ChambersStreet? Probably no
IN SERVICE TO THE NEW NATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBB K The upcoming event In Service to the New Nation: The Life & Legacy of John Jay celebrates the near completion of the John Jay Papers Project. The event includes a keynote address “Life in an Age of Conflicts and Extremes” by Professor Joanne B. Freeman of Yale University and conference panels with presentations by historians, independent scholars, archivists, and documentary editors on an BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR AND Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already a THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham. THE GREAT EPIZOOTIC OF 1872: PANDEMICS, ANIMALS, AND The Great Epizootic of 1872: Pandemics, Animals, and Modernity in 19th-Century New York City By Oliver Lazarus Monday, October 21st, 1872, began like many mid-fall days in New York — overcast and muggy with spitting rain, and a high of sixty-six degrees. Fall was supposed to mark the height of bu 9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. THE STRUGGLE FOR TEACHER EDUCATION IN 19TH CENTURY NEW The Struggle for Teacher Education in 19th Century New York By Sandra Roff Teaching as a profession aims to achieve the most noble of principles — educating children to be responsible, productive citizens. Unfortunately, the teachers hired in the early years of “DOWN HERE NEAR THE END OF STATEN ISLAND”: DOROTHY DAY ON “Down Here Near the End of Staten Island”: Dorothy Day on the Beach and on the Page By David Allen In the Map Division of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue is a 1924 survey of New York conducted by the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation for the City’s Office of the Chief Engineer. If NEW YORK'S VANISHING VISIONARY: THE QUIET MYSTERIES OF The 1920’s were also the dotage of New York’s pioneer generation of reformers – Stover, Low, Wald, Paulding, and others – who had built institutions, lobbied for legislation, and created or protected community organizations and public spaces, filling the gaps left by government and private charity in responding to the urban squalor associated with industrialization and mass immigration. HORACE GREELEY: PRINT, POLITICS, AND THE FAILURE OF Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Reviewed by John Bugg How many New Yorkers could identify the large, weathered bronze statue of a journalist with a newspaper open across his lap that sits in City Hall Park, just off ChambersStreet? Probably no
IN SERVICE TO THE NEW NATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBB K The upcoming event In Service to the New Nation: The Life & Legacy of John Jay celebrates the near completion of the John Jay Papers Project. The event includes a keynote address “Life in an Age of Conflicts and Extremes” by Professor Joanne B. Freeman of Yale University and conference panels with presentations by historians, independent scholars, archivists, and documentary editors on an BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR AND Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already a WALKING TOUR / DIRECTORY The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City HistoryTHE COMMONS
The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City HistoryOUR MISSION
The Gotham Center is a research and public education institution, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City’s rich and living past. The organization was founded in 2000 by Mike Wallace, after his landmark work Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,co-authored with
ABOUT GOTHAMED
About GothamEd. GothamEd presents online courses in New York City history, designed to serve a range of backgrounds and purposes — from the generally interested looking for a compact introduction to avid buffs in search of a much deeper dive. The program offers a mixture of private lectures with discussion and more traditionalclasses
PIVOTAL THEATER
The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History AFRICAN BURIAL GROUNDS The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History THE MARSHALL HOTEL The Marshall Hotel. On September 28, 1912 George Francis O’Neill headed out to Marshall’s Hotel, a black-owned establishment that offered comfortable accommodations, delicious food, cold drinks, and hot jazz. Located in two neighboring brownstones in the heart of the Tenderloin district, Marshall’s Hotel featured live music and THE STRUGGLE FOR TEACHER EDUCATION IN 19TH CENTURY NEW The Struggle for Teacher Education in 19th Century New York By Sandra Roff Teaching as a profession aims to achieve the most noble of principles — educating children to be responsible, productive citizens. Unfortunately, the teachers hired in the early years of “THE LUNGS OF THE CITY”: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, PUBLIC In the 19th century, parkland and public health were so intimately intertwined that Frederick Law Olmsted left his post as Superintendent of Central Park to become General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, a national medical relief effort organized during the Civil War for securing aid and supplies for wounded soldiers. The organization was the precursor to the American Red “DOWN HERE NEAR THE END OF STATEN ISLAND”: DOROTHY DAY ON “Down Here Near the End of Staten Island”: Dorothy Day on the Beach and on the Page By David Allen In the Map Division of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue is a 1924 survey of New York conducted by the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation for the City’s Office of the Chief Engineer. If THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham.OUR MISSION
The Gotham Center is a research and public education institution, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City’s rich and living past. The organization was founded in 2000 by Mike Wallace, after his landmark work Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,co-authored with
GARMENT INDUSTRY HISTORY PROJECT Garments were carted through traffic by “push boys,” making life difficult for pedestrians. At the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m., workers and bosses flooded local cafeterias and private clubs. After 1925, the Garment District pushed west of Eighth Avenue. By the late 1920s, the Garment District was home to half of the city’s garmentplants.
PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New HORACE GREELEY: PRINT, POLITICS, AND THE FAILURE OF Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Reviewed by John Bugg How many New Yorkers could identify the large, weathered bronze statue of a journalist with a newspaper open across his lap that sits in City Hall Park, just off ChambersStreet? Probably no
“THE LUNGS OF THE CITY”: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, PUBLIC In the 19th century, parkland and public health were so intimately intertwined that Frederick Law Olmsted left his post as Superintendent of Central Park to become General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, a national medical relief effort organized during the Civil War for securing aid and supplies for wounded soldiers. The organization was the precursor to the American Red NEW YORK'S VANISHING VISIONARY: THE QUIET MYSTERIES OF The 1920’s were also the dotage of New York’s pioneer generation of reformers – Stover, Low, Wald, Paulding, and others – who had built institutions, lobbied for legislation, and created or protected community organizations and public spaces, filling the gaps left by government and private charity in responding to the urban squalor associated with industrialization and mass immigration. THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR ANDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR AND WIFEKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR FAMILYKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR SONIS KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR MARRIEDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR HEIGHTKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR WIKI Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already a THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham.OUR MISSION
The Gotham Center is a research and public education institution, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City’s rich and living past. The organization was founded in 2000 by Mike Wallace, after his landmark work Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,co-authored with
GARMENT INDUSTRY HISTORY PROJECT Garments were carted through traffic by “push boys,” making life difficult for pedestrians. At the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m., workers and bosses flooded local cafeterias and private clubs. After 1925, the Garment District pushed west of Eighth Avenue. By the late 1920s, the Garment District was home to half of the city’s garmentplants.
PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New “THE LUNGS OF THE CITY”: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, PUBLIC In the 19th century, parkland and public health were so intimately intertwined that Frederick Law Olmsted left his post as Superintendent of Central Park to become General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, a national medical relief effort organized during the Civil War for securing aid and supplies for wounded soldiers. The organization was the precursor to the American Red HORACE GREELEY: PRINT, POLITICS, AND THE FAILURE OF Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Reviewed by John Bugg How many New Yorkers could identify the large, weathered bronze statue of a journalist with a newspaper open across his lap that sits in City Hall Park, just off ChambersStreet? Probably no
NEW YORK'S VANISHING VISIONARY: THE QUIET MYSTERIES OF The 1920’s were also the dotage of New York’s pioneer generation of reformers – Stover, Low, Wald, Paulding, and others – who had built institutions, lobbied for legislation, and created or protected community organizations and public spaces, filling the gaps left by government and private charity in responding to the urban squalor associated with industrialization and mass immigration. THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR ANDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR AND WIFEKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR FAMILYKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR SONIS KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR MARRIEDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR HEIGHTKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR WIKI Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already aTHE COMMONS
The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History WALKING TOUR / DIRECTORY The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City HistoryUPCOMING EVENTS
In The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage, John Harris looks at how the City became one of the last major hubs for the illegal transatlantic slave trade, in the 1850s and ‘60s. Long after the oceanic business was outlawed by every major slave-trading nation, merchants were sending hundreds of ships from American ports to the African coast.PIVOTAL THEATER
The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History AFRICAN BURIAL GROUNDS The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City HistoryEDITORIAL TEAM
Marlene Gaynair is a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, specializing in social, cultural, and digital histories of the modern Black Atlantic, particularly North America and the Caribbean.Her dissertation, “Islands in the North,” is a comparative social history of Jamaican migrants and their descendants in Toronto and New York City, taking aMIKE WALLACE
Mike Wallace,Founder & Advisory Board Chairman. Mike Wallace is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he has taught the history of New York and crime in the city to police officers and others since 1971, and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He was born and raised in New York City and itsenvirons, and got
THE MARSHALL HOTEL The Marshall Hotel. On September 28, 1912 George Francis O’Neill headed out to Marshall’s Hotel, a black-owned establishment that offered comfortable accommodations, delicious food, cold drinks, and hot jazz. Located in two neighboring brownstones in the heart of the Tenderloin district, Marshall’s Hotel featured live music and PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
GOTHAM: A BLOG FOR SCHOLARS OF NEW YORK CITY HISTORY “The presentation of the civic and commercial life of the city”: May King Van Rensselaer and the founding of the Museum of the City of New York By Alena Buis At the January 2, 1917 annual meeting of the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS), May King Van Rensselaer (1848-1925) delivered a passionate speech. THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham.OUR MISSION
The Gotham Center is a research and public education institution, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City’s rich and living past. The organization was founded in 2000 by Mike Wallace, after his landmark work Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,co-authored with
GARMENT INDUSTRY HISTORY PROJECT Garments were carted through traffic by “push boys,” making life difficult for pedestrians. At the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m., workers and bosses flooded local cafeterias and private clubs. After 1925, the Garment District pushed west of Eighth Avenue. By the late 1920s, the Garment District was home to half of the city’s garmentplants.
PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New HORACE GREELEY: PRINT, POLITICS, AND THE FAILURE OF Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Reviewed by John Bugg How many New Yorkers could identify the large, weathered bronze statue of a journalist with a newspaper open across his lap that sits in City Hall Park, just off ChambersStreet? Probably no
“THE LUNGS OF THE CITY”: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, PUBLIC In the 19th century, parkland and public health were so intimately intertwined that Frederick Law Olmsted left his post as Superintendent of Central Park to become General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, a national medical relief effort organized during the Civil War for securing aid and supplies for wounded soldiers. The organization was the precursor to the American Red NEW YORK'S VANISHING VISIONARY: THE QUIET MYSTERIES OF The 1920’s were also the dotage of New York’s pioneer generation of reformers – Stover, Low, Wald, Paulding, and others – who had built institutions, lobbied for legislation, and created or protected community organizations and public spaces, filling the gaps left by government and private charity in responding to the urban squalor associated with industrialization and mass immigration. THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR ANDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR AND WIFEKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR FAMILYKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR SONIS KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR MARRIEDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR HEIGHTKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR WIKI Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already a THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham.OUR MISSION
The Gotham Center is a research and public education institution, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City’s rich and living past. The organization was founded in 2000 by Mike Wallace, after his landmark work Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,co-authored with
GARMENT INDUSTRY HISTORY PROJECT Garments were carted through traffic by “push boys,” making life difficult for pedestrians. At the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m., workers and bosses flooded local cafeterias and private clubs. After 1925, the Garment District pushed west of Eighth Avenue. By the late 1920s, the Garment District was home to half of the city’s garmentplants.
PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New HORACE GREELEY: PRINT, POLITICS, AND THE FAILURE OF Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Reviewed by John Bugg How many New Yorkers could identify the large, weathered bronze statue of a journalist with a newspaper open across his lap that sits in City Hall Park, just off ChambersStreet? Probably no
“THE LUNGS OF THE CITY”: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, PUBLIC In the 19th century, parkland and public health were so intimately intertwined that Frederick Law Olmsted left his post as Superintendent of Central Park to become General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, a national medical relief effort organized during the Civil War for securing aid and supplies for wounded soldiers. The organization was the precursor to the American Red NEW YORK'S VANISHING VISIONARY: THE QUIET MYSTERIES OF The 1920’s were also the dotage of New York’s pioneer generation of reformers – Stover, Low, Wald, Paulding, and others – who had built institutions, lobbied for legislation, and created or protected community organizations and public spaces, filling the gaps left by government and private charity in responding to the urban squalor associated with industrialization and mass immigration. THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR ANDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR AND WIFEKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR FAMILYKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR SONIS KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR MARRIEDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR HEIGHTKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR WIKI Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already aTHE COMMONS
The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History WALKING TOUR / DIRECTORY The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City HistoryUPCOMING EVENTS
In The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage, John Harris looks at how the City became one of the last major hubs for the illegal transatlantic slave trade, in the 1850s and ‘60s. Long after the oceanic business was outlawed by every major slave-trading nation, merchants were sending hundreds of ships from American ports to the African coast.PIVOTAL THEATER
The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History AFRICAN BURIAL GROUNDS The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City HistoryEDITORIAL TEAM
Marlene Gaynair is a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, specializing in social, cultural, and digital histories of the modern Black Atlantic, particularly North America and the Caribbean.Her dissertation, “Islands in the North,” is a comparative social history of Jamaican migrants and their descendants in Toronto and New York City, taking aMIKE WALLACE
Mike Wallace,Founder & Advisory Board Chairman. Mike Wallace is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he has taught the history of New York and crime in the city to police officers and others since 1971, and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He was born and raised in New York City and itsenvirons, and got
THE MARSHALL HOTEL The Marshall Hotel. On September 28, 1912 George Francis O’Neill headed out to Marshall’s Hotel, a black-owned establishment that offered comfortable accommodations, delicious food, cold drinks, and hot jazz. Located in two neighboring brownstones in the heart of the Tenderloin district, Marshall’s Hotel featured live music and PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
GOTHAM: A BLOG FOR SCHOLARS OF NEW YORK CITY HISTORY “The presentation of the civic and commercial life of the city”: May King Van Rensselaer and the founding of the Museum of the City of New York By Alena Buis At the January 2, 1917 annual meeting of the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS), May King Van Rensselaer (1848-1925) delivered a passionate speech. THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham.OUR MISSION
The Gotham Center is a research and public education institution, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City’s rich and living past. The organization was founded in 2000 by Mike Wallace, after his landmark work Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,co-authored with
GARMENT INDUSTRY HISTORY PROJECT Garments were carted through traffic by “push boys,” making life difficult for pedestrians. At the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m., workers and bosses flooded local cafeterias and private clubs. After 1925, the Garment District pushed west of Eighth Avenue. By the late 1920s, the Garment District was home to half of the city’s garmentplants.
PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New HORACE GREELEY: PRINT, POLITICS, AND THE FAILURE OF Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Reviewed by John Bugg How many New Yorkers could identify the large, weathered bronze statue of a journalist with a newspaper open across his lap that sits in City Hall Park, just off ChambersStreet? Probably no
“THE LUNGS OF THE CITY”: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, PUBLIC In the 19th century, parkland and public health were so intimately intertwined that Frederick Law Olmsted left his post as Superintendent of Central Park to become General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, a national medical relief effort organized during the Civil War for securing aid and supplies for wounded soldiers. The organization was the precursor to the American Red NEW YORK'S VANISHING VISIONARY: THE QUIET MYSTERIES OF The 1920’s were also the dotage of New York’s pioneer generation of reformers – Stover, Low, Wald, Paulding, and others – who had built institutions, lobbied for legislation, and created or protected community organizations and public spaces, filling the gaps left by government and private charity in responding to the urban squalor associated with industrialization and mass immigration. THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR ANDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR AND WIFEKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR FAMILYKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR SONIS KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR MARRIEDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR HEIGHTKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR WIKI Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already a THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham.OUR MISSION
The Gotham Center is a research and public education institution, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City’s rich and living past. The organization was founded in 2000 by Mike Wallace, after his landmark work Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,co-authored with
GARMENT INDUSTRY HISTORY PROJECT Garments were carted through traffic by “push boys,” making life difficult for pedestrians. At the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m., workers and bosses flooded local cafeterias and private clubs. After 1925, the Garment District pushed west of Eighth Avenue. By the late 1920s, the Garment District was home to half of the city’s garmentplants.
PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New HORACE GREELEY: PRINT, POLITICS, AND THE FAILURE OF Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Reviewed by John Bugg How many New Yorkers could identify the large, weathered bronze statue of a journalist with a newspaper open across his lap that sits in City Hall Park, just off ChambersStreet? Probably no
“THE LUNGS OF THE CITY”: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, PUBLIC In the 19th century, parkland and public health were so intimately intertwined that Frederick Law Olmsted left his post as Superintendent of Central Park to become General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, a national medical relief effort organized during the Civil War for securing aid and supplies for wounded soldiers. The organization was the precursor to the American Red NEW YORK'S VANISHING VISIONARY: THE QUIET MYSTERIES OF The 1920’s were also the dotage of New York’s pioneer generation of reformers – Stover, Low, Wald, Paulding, and others – who had built institutions, lobbied for legislation, and created or protected community organizations and public spaces, filling the gaps left by government and private charity in responding to the urban squalor associated with industrialization and mass immigration. THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR ANDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR AND WIFEKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR FAMILYKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR SONIS KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR MARRIEDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR HEIGHTKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR WIKI Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already aTHE COMMONS
The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History WALKING TOUR / DIRECTORY The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City HistoryUPCOMING EVENTS
In The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage, John Harris looks at how the City became one of the last major hubs for the illegal transatlantic slave trade, in the 1850s and ‘60s. Long after the oceanic business was outlawed by every major slave-trading nation, merchants were sending hundreds of ships from American ports to the African coast.PIVOTAL THEATER
The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History AFRICAN BURIAL GROUNDS The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City HistoryEDITORIAL TEAM
Marlene Gaynair is a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, specializing in social, cultural, and digital histories of the modern Black Atlantic, particularly North America and the Caribbean.Her dissertation, “Islands in the North,” is a comparative social history of Jamaican migrants and their descendants in Toronto and New York City, taking aMIKE WALLACE
Mike Wallace,Founder & Advisory Board Chairman. Mike Wallace is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he has taught the history of New York and crime in the city to police officers and others since 1971, and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He was born and raised in New York City and itsenvirons, and got
THE MARSHALL HOTEL The Marshall Hotel. On September 28, 1912 George Francis O’Neill headed out to Marshall’s Hotel, a black-owned establishment that offered comfortable accommodations, delicious food, cold drinks, and hot jazz. Located in two neighboring brownstones in the heart of the Tenderloin district, Marshall’s Hotel featured live music and PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
GOTHAM: A BLOG FOR SCHOLARS OF NEW YORK CITY HISTORY “The presentation of the civic and commercial life of the city”: May King Van Rensselaer and the founding of the Museum of the City of New York By Alena Buis At the January 2, 1917 annual meeting of the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS), May King Van Rensselaer (1848-1925) delivered a passionate speech. THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham.OUR MISSION
The Gotham Center is a research and public education institution, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City’s rich and living past. The organization was founded in 2000 by Mike Wallace, after his landmark work Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,co-authored with
GARMENT INDUSTRY HISTORY PROJECT Garments were carted through traffic by “push boys,” making life difficult for pedestrians. At the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m., workers and bosses flooded local cafeterias and private clubs. After 1925, the Garment District pushed west of Eighth Avenue. By the late 1920s, the Garment District was home to half of the city’s garmentplants.
PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New HORACE GREELEY: PRINT, POLITICS, AND THE FAILURE OF Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Reviewed by John Bugg How many New Yorkers could identify the large, weathered bronze statue of a journalist with a newspaper open across his lap that sits in City Hall Park, just off ChambersStreet? Probably no
“THE LUNGS OF THE CITY”: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, PUBLIC In the 19th century, parkland and public health were so intimately intertwined that Frederick Law Olmsted left his post as Superintendent of Central Park to become General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, a national medical relief effort organized during the Civil War for securing aid and supplies for wounded soldiers. The organization was the precursor to the American Red NEW YORK'S VANISHING VISIONARY: THE QUIET MYSTERIES OF The 1920’s were also the dotage of New York’s pioneer generation of reformers – Stover, Low, Wald, Paulding, and others – who had built institutions, lobbied for legislation, and created or protected community organizations and public spaces, filling the gaps left by government and private charity in responding to the urban squalor associated with industrialization and mass immigration. THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR ANDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR AND WIFEKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR FAMILYKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR SONIS KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR MARRIEDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR HEIGHTKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR WIKI Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already a THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY A public educational organization devoted to the history of New York at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Mike Wallace founded the Center in 2000, inspired by the popularity of his Pulitzer-winning book, Gotham.OUR MISSION
The Gotham Center is a research and public education institution, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of New York City’s rich and living past. The organization was founded in 2000 by Mike Wallace, after his landmark work Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,co-authored with
GARMENT INDUSTRY HISTORY PROJECT Garments were carted through traffic by “push boys,” making life difficult for pedestrians. At the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m., workers and bosses flooded local cafeterias and private clubs. After 1925, the Garment District pushed west of Eighth Avenue. By the late 1920s, the Garment District was home to half of the city’s garmentplants.
PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
9/11: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 9/11: Historical Perspectives. To help put the events in context, we are providing here a variety of perspectives on September 11th. See below for monographs, essays, and links. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (Routledge, 2002), edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, focuses the critical sights of 19 prominent New HORACE GREELEY: PRINT, POLITICS, AND THE FAILURE OF Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood Reviewed by John Bugg How many New Yorkers could identify the large, weathered bronze statue of a journalist with a newspaper open across his lap that sits in City Hall Park, just off ChambersStreet? Probably no
“THE LUNGS OF THE CITY”: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, PUBLIC In the 19th century, parkland and public health were so intimately intertwined that Frederick Law Olmsted left his post as Superintendent of Central Park to become General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, a national medical relief effort organized during the Civil War for securing aid and supplies for wounded soldiers. The organization was the precursor to the American Red NEW YORK'S VANISHING VISIONARY: THE QUIET MYSTERIES OF The 1920’s were also the dotage of New York’s pioneer generation of reformers – Stover, Low, Wald, Paulding, and others – who had built institutions, lobbied for legislation, and created or protected community organizations and public spaces, filling the gaps left by government and private charity in responding to the urban squalor associated with industrialization and mass immigration. THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH SETON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE O The Life of Elizabeth Seton: An Interview With Catherine O'Donnell Today on the blog, editor Katie Uva sits down with Catherine O'Donnell, author of Elizabeth Seton: American Saint , to discuss how New York City shaped Seton's life and faith. BASKETBALL AND BLACK PRIDE: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR ANDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR AND WIFEKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR FAMILYKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR SONIS KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR MARRIEDKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR HEIGHTKAREEM ABDUL JABBAR WIKI Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing By Nick Juravich In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already aTHE COMMONS
The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History WALKING TOUR / DIRECTORY The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City HistoryUPCOMING EVENTS
In The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage, John Harris looks at how the City became one of the last major hubs for the illegal transatlantic slave trade, in the 1850s and ‘60s. Long after the oceanic business was outlawed by every major slave-trading nation, merchants were sending hundreds of ships from American ports to the African coast.PIVOTAL THEATER
The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History AFRICAN BURIAL GROUNDS The Gotham Center for New York City History. Blog. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City HistoryEDITORIAL TEAM
Marlene Gaynair is a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, specializing in social, cultural, and digital histories of the modern Black Atlantic, particularly North America and the Caribbean.Her dissertation, “Islands in the North,” is a comparative social history of Jamaican migrants and their descendants in Toronto and New York City, taking aMIKE WALLACE
Mike Wallace,Founder & Advisory Board Chairman. Mike Wallace is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he has taught the history of New York and crime in the city to police officers and others since 1971, and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He was born and raised in New York City and itsenvirons, and got
THE MARSHALL HOTEL The Marshall Hotel. On September 28, 1912 George Francis O’Neill headed out to Marshall’s Hotel, a black-owned establishment that offered comfortable accommodations, delicious food, cold drinks, and hot jazz. Located in two neighboring brownstones in the heart of the Tenderloin district, Marshall’s Hotel featured live music and PLACE AND PROFESSION IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE After years of bickering with educational authoritarians, Hook presented his alternative vision for education in two of his least read and least understood texts, Education for Modern Man and The Hero in History. Both reflected an enduring passion for historical study and inquiry, the curricular centerpiece of Hook’s philosophy ofeducation.
GOTHAM: A BLOG FOR SCHOLARS OF NEW YORK CITY HISTORY “The presentation of the civic and commercial life of the city”: May King Van Rensselaer and the founding of the Museum of the City of New York By Alena Buis At the January 2, 1917 annual meeting of the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS), May King Van Rensselaer (1848-1925) delivered a passionate speech.Blog
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